A powerful wind park will be built in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which will be able to provide energy to about a thousand households.
The corresponding memorandum was signed by the German international company NOTUS ENERGY, NEC "Ukrenergo", the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources and the state agency for management of the exclusion zone, the Ministry of Environment reports on Facebook.
It is noted that this use of the Chernobyl zone will bring investments and new jobs. In addition, it will contribute to energy independence of Ukraine, the development of green technologies and profits for the state.
"Even before the full-scale invasion, we had strategic plans to transform the Chernobyl zone into a recovery zone. The war did not change them, but temporarily suspended them. The partnership with NOTUS ENERGY is a positive example for international investors that the Exclusion Zone is an attractive and promising area for the development of not only renewable energy, but also other ecologically clean technical solutions," said Oleksandr Krasnolutsky, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection.
The message explained that the implementation of the project will allow:
- to increase the production of electricity in the energy-deficient region;
- optimal use of abandoned territory;
- restore the network infrastructure.
It is noted that NOTUS ENERGY has already completed a preliminary assessment plan and a master plan for the project. The next stage is a wind measuring study, technical and economic substantiation of the electrical network, environmental study and the process of land acquisition.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that the Cabinet of Ministers has registered in the Verkhovna Rada draft law No. 9338 "On the development of territories exposed to radioactive contamination as a result of the Chernobyl disaster". The document creates the basis for the transformation of the Zone of Exclusion into the Zone of Revival.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, Slovakia can expand business activity in Transcarpathia, in particular in the field of development of wind energy.
